Pam Bondi threatened to prosecute private employee at a Office Depot for not printing Charlie Kirk vigil flyers
Source: The Independent
Pam Bondi threatened to prosecute private employee at a Office Depot for not printing Charlie Kirk vigil flyers
Office Depot fired a Michigan employee who refused to print flyers for a Charlie Kirk vigil, claiming they were ‘propaganda’
Rhian Lubin
in New York
Tuesday 16 September 2025 14:34 BST
Attorney General Pam Bondi has threatened to prosecute a former private employee at Office Depot for refusing to print flyers for a Charlie Kirk vigil.
Office Depot fired an employee at its Portage store in Michigan two days ago after a video emerged of the staffer telling a customer, “We don’t print propaganda, it’s propaganda."
Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Bondi about free speech and the First Amendment on his Monday night show.
“Businesses cannot discriminate,” Bondi said, referring to the Office Depot incident. “If you wanna go in and print posters with Charlie’s pictures on them for a vigil, you have to let them do that. We can prosecute you for that.”
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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pam-bondi-charlie-kirk-office-depot-employee-b2827508.html
Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pam-bondi-threatened-prosecute-private-133442936.html
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"businesses can't discriminate..." against conservative messages, but they can refuse to serve same-sex couples?
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The requirement of a state actor is fundamental part of the First Amendment. The fact that TFG supporters and others do not like the speech from a private company does not give the govt the right to regulate such speech.
This cartoon does a decent job on the state actor requirement under the First Amendment
PSA on First Amendment
How did Bondi graduate from law school?
